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B | Today in Washington —y — anishing of Mrs. Maclean Puts British A gents on Spot By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-- Donaid MacLean—a British of- Ticlal known among his friends as a Comimunis! — in_ some stranze way Cluded the British security services in May, 1951 and disappeared behind the Tron Curtain bearing confiden- tial information he had been accumulating from his intimate contacls with the governments of the United States and Great Britcin. Now his American-born wife has disappeared under elreum- siances equally mysterious, and the world is wondering whether the British Security Service fell gown again or whriher perhaps it now will be in the position to ecnfound its critics by ex- Posing the whole story and re- veajing that perhaps it has known all along what was going, on | "The Taticr theory is one that; naturally arises wishfully among: those familiar with intelligence work. For it would be incred-) ible if the British Security Serv- ice, knowing how important it was to obtain every.scrap of iIn- formation about the where- abouts of MacLean and his as- sociate, Guy Burgess, would fail to shadow the family in Swit- verland and keep in touch with everyone who micht seek to talk, with the wife of the missing diplomat. ( May Take Days Certainly ff the intelligence’ agents have been and are still on the job, it may be days be- fore they will discover the place where Messrs. MacLean and Burerss have been _ hiding. Theie would certainly have been no point in intercepting Mrs. MacLean. Tt would be shicwd, rather, to maintain un- inicrrupted surveillance _wntil i(cauld Be determined exactly where she was headed. ed Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Sear N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror